Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit August 11, 2006, 04-3044 (Robert Simpson v. Deirdre Battaglia, Warden, 1)

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Proceeding pro se, Robert Simpson was convicted by an Illinois jury of first degree murder and armed robbery and sentenced to death. Simpson’s sentence was later commuted to natural life imprisonment without the possibility of parole by former Illinois Governor George Ryan.